"I’m talking about the user experience. With audiences spoiled by more hours of content than hours of life left – how does one effectively navigate such content troves?"
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CHALLENGES OF BROADCAST MEDIA IN AN INTERNET AGE
"The biggest money is in the smallest sales..."
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AUDIENCE TASTE CULTURES
"Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, from DVDs at Netflix to music videos on Yahoo!...People are going deep into catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video..."
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MATTERS OF TASTE
"USS Triumphant wisely replied:
“There are casual fans…and then there are Trekkies. Trekkies come in three categories.
1. People who believe in the ideals and values of some aspect of the show on a religious or almost religious level,
2. People who are obsessed with the minutae of the show, and usually, canon, and,
3. People who find the stuff of the show - phasers, uniforms, Klingon foreheads - to be their playground of choice."
USS Triumphant identifies as a ‘pretty strong a number 1’, “with a touch of the third…and a tiny bit of the second.”
In this post, I look into questions of genre, and their associated ‘taste cultures’ (and assumptions), using HBO series Game of Thrones as a fascinating myth-busting example."
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REALITY - THE BEST KIND OF CONTRACEPTION
"Mummy blogger, Carolin @ Mummy Alarm expresses her overjoyed enthusiasm for watching childbirth on television:
“…I can’t wait to follow the birth stories of this season’s couples. Last year, I was pregnant with Amy and didn’t miss a single episode… I was watching the series religiously and soaked up every little thing like a sponge…”
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POST-BROADCAST ERA OF TELEVISION
"…in its spatial and temporal significance, in its embeddedness in quotidian patterns and habits; as a contributor to our security…television is part of the grain of everyday life.
Television as a digital medium therefore threatens to upset ingrained assumptions about the medium, but also the organisation of everyday life, social structures and culture."
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